Legendary Trinket Effects Update

[Catmander Neko.5643]

Hello Tyrians,

When we released the Legendary Armory feature on July 13, one of the top pieces of feedback we heard was for the ability to hide the visual effects of the legendary trinkets Aurora, Vision, and Coalescence. At that time we unfortunately didn’t have the dev bandwidth available to tackle the request. The work that we’d need to do to make the visual effects toggleable was a non-trivial effort. We were (and still are) hard at work on the End of Dragons expansion.

Since then, a member of our engineering team identified a new approach to the stacking buff problem we previously explained that would not add technical or design debt (bookah speak: the idea that doing the seemingly simple solution now, will cost us much more time later than the simple solution saved us to begin with), and after some iteration and refactoring, we landed on a satisfactory implementation. Add a healthy portion of testing, bake for 3-4 weeks in our release pipeline (the average time from the moment something is finished and ok-ed to be released, to actually being in a release) and you end up with a checkbox on more of your legendary trinkets on November 9th.

Once the build is live tomorrow, Aurora, Vision, and Coalescence will each have a new checkbox when equipped. From the player perspective, these checkboxes will add or remove their contribution to the stack that determines which effect will be displayed on your character, or none at all, if that is your thing.

[VictorLeal.4102]

PERFECTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Arheundel.6451]

Yesssssss

[MrGarlic.1834]

This is fantastic news. Thank you so much to the engineer who came up with this solution.

I've been holding off making these trinkets because of this issue, even though I have the Vision and Aurora precursors,  but now I can finally make them 🙂

Thank you.

[Sharp Edges V.5724]

Thank you so much!!!!!

Please follow this up with an explanation how you actually ended up realising the feature!

[Junior.3860]

At last.
Thank you!

[Aragorn.5462]

Yay!!!! Thank you ANET! 

[khani.4786]

Thank you so so much. Now I'll actually make the others now that I can hide the effect.

[Elrey.5472]

Best new of the month, f yeah! thanks anet (invite that engineer to a well deserved coffee!)

Edited November 8, 2021 by Elrey.5472

[HardRider.2980]

The way you worded this post is absolutely F amazing. 
I couldn't help but laugh .. in a good way.


Also.. Nice to see you was able to find a solution

[Janitsu.6284]

cowabunga

[Seremela the Elf Mage.1748]

Thank you so much to whomever figured this out and thank you for implementing it. Most hyped update since legendary armory release!!!😱

[Kain Francois.4328]

Begone, Coalescence over my head! We are finally free!!!

 

Edited November 8, 2021 by Kain Francois.4328

[zealex.9410]

Major thanks, your engineers are actual chads, now to ask for a bit more design debt, could we have an options menu toggle to hide other ppl's trinkets?

Edited November 9, 2021 by zealex.9410

[The Last Hobbit.6492]

Well done! Highly appreciate the extra effort put in to get this problem solved.

Any chance for additional juicy details on the new approach that was discovered, how it was implemented and any challenges you had to overcome? I love the deep dives.

[Infusion.7149]

Thanks for the update! 🙂

[Lan Deathrider.5910]

I cannot wait for the patch! I'm not really one for all the glow effects, outside of some subtly effects on my weapons, and I cannot wait to get rid of Aurora and Vision's effects. May they forever be banished along with Cornflakes' blue ball.

[Tranquillity.8697]

i'm just gonna throw 100 bucks at the gemstore because of this change. thank you ❤️

[Hanakocz.5697]

Love it, gonna go craft it right now just to celebrate this news

[Mike.7983]

Don't suppose we can get a preview at what the seasonal return amulet looks like cosmetic wise?  Working hard for something we have no idea about.  Also any update on gen 3 weps yet? be nice to see ingame render or any special fx on them not including the very short greatsword on 1 clip.

[Doggie.3184]

Thanks for letting us remove our balls.

[zealex.9410]

1 minute ago, Mike.7983 said:

Don't suppose we can get a preview at what the seasonal return amulet looks like cosmetic wise?  Working hard for something we have no idea about.  Also any update on gen 3 weps yet? be nice to see ingame render or any special fx on them not including the very short greatsword on 1 clip.

you get handsomely rewarded along the way its not just the amulet.

[Acheron.3429]

Awesome! We have been waiting for this for a long time.

[awesmdiverGWTWO.5213]

Thank you - I've hated the animations - I like "simple and clean".

[Sobx.1758]

Nice, now I can get them 😁